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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Sam Davis was hung by a mob in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in what year?
2. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France which took place in what year?
3. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by whom?
4. How many men did Columbus leave behind at the Navidad fort?
5. When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after inadvertently landing in the Americas, he told the Queen and King of Spain that he had reached Asia and an island off of China. In reality, Columbus had traveled to what currently-known locations?
Short Essay Questions
1. What positive qualities of the establishment of the United States does Zinn discuss in Chapter 4?
2. Where did Christopher Columbus intend to travel when he “discovered” the Americas? Where does the author assert he actually landed in Chapter 1?
3. How does the author describe Mexico’s land area and status after 1821 in Chapter 8?
4. Where does the author assert the history of slavery in the U.S. originated in Chapter 2?
5. How do we know the details of Christopher Columbus’s first encounter with the Arawak people? How does the author describe Columbus’s views of the people in Chapter 1?
6. What was the first representative assembly introduced in Virginia? What were the responsibilities of this assembly regarding slavery?
7. What author spent a night in jail following his protest of the Mexican-American War? Why was he arrested?
8. What did Columbus discover when he returned to his fort at Navidad on his second journey, according to the author in Chapter 1? What did he take with him?
9. How does the author describe history’s depiction of women in the beginning of Chapter 6?
10. How does the author describe the uprisings in Kentucky and other colonies in 1760 in Chapter 4?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the racial and class bias regarding those who were allowed to fight in the American Revolutionary War. Why did the Americans originally limit those who served to landowners? Why and when did this restriction change? Why did the Americans refuse to allow Native Americans or African slaves to participate in the war?
Essay Topic 2
Examine and discuss the Seminole Wars, the policy of Indian removal, and the presidential administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. When was the Indian Removal Act signed into law? By whom? What were the effects of this act on the Native Americans living both east and west of the Mississippi?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the class struggles of the nineteenth century in the United States. What corporate and government abuses led to the civil unrest in the country and the establishment of organizations to fight corruption? How effective were these organizations in protecting the common people?
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